Re: [Flashforth-devel] (no subject)

[Doug J. <do...@do...>]

On 3/03/2014 11:30 PM, craig bair wrote:
> Point is, if you prevent everyone from doing something stupid, you prevent someone else from doing something extremely clever...  Don't let seatbelts become straight-jackets.
>

That's what I love about Forth - It is a real language - warts and all.

- It doesn't hold your hand. It was never designed to gently stroke your 
arm while saying "That's ok - you can do it...."
- It does *exactly* what you ask, when you ask, and how you ask.  It 
doesn't say - "Hang on, I have to talk to the floppy disk for the next 5 
seconds..."
- It Never says "Are You Sure (Y/N)?"
- If you would like to drop the dictionary containing your words, you 
are welcoime to, even while running the program that relied on them.  
Thats dynamic!

Anything else looks way too much like BASIC for me :-)

Doug